Rollo in Holland

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ROLLO IN HOLLAND,

BY

JACOB ABBOTT.

BOSTON: BROWN, TAGGARD &CHASE,

SUCCESSORS TO W. J. REYNOLDS &CO., 25 &29 CORNHILL.

1857.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JACOB ABBOTT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. Damrell &Moore, Printers, Boston.

[Illustration: ROLLO IN HOLLAND.]

ROLLO IN HOLLAND.

Holland is one of the most remarkable countries on the globe. The peculiarities which make it remarkable arise from the fact that it is almost perfectly level throughout, and it lies so low. A very large portion of it, in fact, lies below the level of the sea, the waters being kept out, as every body knows, by immense dikes that have stood for ages.

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